David J. Brady

18.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
421 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

David J. Brady is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, David J. Brady has authored 421 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 153 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 109 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in David J. Brady's work include Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (64 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (59 papers) and Image Processing Techniques and Applications (45 papers). David J. Brady is often cited by papers focused on Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (64 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (59 papers) and Image Processing Techniques and Applications (45 papers). David J. Brady collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. David J. Brady's co-authors include Rebecca Willett, Xin Yuan, Ashwin A. Wagadarikar, Daniel L. Marks, Renu John, Lawrence Carin, David Kittle, Michael E. Gehm, Nikos Pitsianis and Kerkil Choi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David J. Brady

385 papers receiving 11.7k citations

Hit Papers

Single disperser design for coded aperture snapshot spect... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2008 2007 2013 2013 2018 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Single disperser design for coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging
    2008 697 citations David J. Brady et al. profile →
  2. Single-shot compressive spectral imaging with a dual-disperser architecture
    2007 545 citations Michael E. Gehm, David J. Brady et al. Optics Express profile →
  3. Metamaterial Apertures for Computational Imaging
    2013 451 citations Guy Lipworth, Matthew S. Reynolds et al. profile →
  4. Compressive Coded Aperture Spectral Imaging: An Introduction
    2013 437 citations David J. Brady et al. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine profile →
  5. Rank Minimization for Snapshot Compressive Imaging
    2018 293 citations Xin Yuan, Jinli Suo et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  6. Snapshot Compressive Imaging: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
    2021 242 citations Xin Yuan, David J. Brady et al. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David J. Brady United States 55 5.3k 3.4k 3.2k 3.2k 2.9k 421 12.5k
Joseph W. Goodman United States 45 4.7k 0.9× 7.0k 2.0× 1.5k 0.5× 4.5k 1.4× 7.9k 2.8× 221 19.8k
Marco F. Duarte United States 33 3.2k 0.6× 2.4k 0.7× 5.5k 1.7× 2.0k 0.6× 505 0.2× 97 9.2k
Gonzalo R. Arce United States 52 2.4k 0.5× 2.0k 0.6× 2.6k 0.8× 4.2k 1.3× 700 0.2× 413 9.2k
Kevin F. Kelly United States 36 2.9k 0.5× 3.3k 1.0× 2.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.3× 1.9k 0.7× 104 8.6k
Wolfgang Heidrich Canada 57 1.6k 0.3× 883 0.3× 1.8k 0.6× 7.7k 2.4× 1.8k 0.6× 291 11.7k
J. C. Dainty United Kingdom 33 2.0k 0.4× 1.9k 0.5× 1.0k 0.3× 1.7k 0.5× 3.4k 1.2× 179 6.8k
Mark A. Davenport United States 27 2.8k 0.5× 1.6k 0.5× 4.9k 1.5× 1.8k 0.6× 465 0.2× 82 7.9k
Demetri Psaltis United States 70 5.8k 1.1× 9.4k 2.8× 574 0.2× 1.6k 0.5× 8.5k 3.0× 575 19.6k
George Barbastathis United States 43 2.4k 0.4× 1.9k 0.6× 431 0.1× 1.6k 0.5× 4.0k 1.4× 307 7.6k
Yair Rivenson United States 36 1.8k 0.3× 2.2k 0.6× 536 0.2× 1.6k 0.5× 2.4k 0.8× 124 7.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brady, David J., et al.. (2025). Interferometric focal planes. Optics Express. 33(10). 21634–21634.
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Fröch, Johannes E., Shane Colburn, David J. Brady, et al.. (2025). Computational imaging with meta-optics. Optica. 12(6). 774–774. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Ni, David J. Brady, & Edmund Y. Lam. (2025). Differentiable Imaging: Progress, Challenges, and Outlook. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhihong, Guohai Situ, David J. Brady, et al.. (2024). A Decade Review of Video Compressive Sensing: A Roadmap to Practical Applications. Engineering. 46. 172–185. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiao, Brandon Redding, Nicholas Karl, et al.. (2024). Integrated photonic encoder for low power and high-speed image processing. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4510–4510. 10 indexed citations
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Vera, Esteban, et al.. (2023). Compressive video via IR-pulsed illumination. Optics Express. 31(23). 39201–39201. 3 indexed citations
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Takashima, Yuzuru, et al.. (2023). Synthetic Aperture Scatter Imaging. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 696–704.
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Yuan, Xin, David J. Brady, & Aggelos K. Katsaggelos. (2021). Snapshot Compressive Imaging: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 38(2). 65–88. 242 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zheng, Haitian, et al.. (2020). CrossNet++: Cross-Scale Large-Parallax Warping for Reference-Based Super-Resolution. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 43(12). 4291–4305. 22 indexed citations
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Siddons, D. P., A. Kuczewski, Abdul K. Rumaiz, et al.. (2020). A coded aperture microscope for X-ray fluorescence full-field imaging. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 27(6). 1703–1706. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Linsen, Tao Yue, Xun Cao, Zhan Ma, & David J. Brady. (2017). High-resolution spectral video acquisition. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering. 18(9). 1250–1260. 5 indexed citations
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Gollub, Jonah N., Okan Yurduseven, Kenneth P. Trofatter, et al.. (2017). Large Metasurface Aperture for Millimeter Wave Computational Imaging at the Human-Scale. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 42650–42650. 188 indexed citations
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Gong, Qian, Esteban Vera, D. R. Golish, et al.. (2016). Model-Based Multiscale Gigapixel Image Formation Pipeline on GPU. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. 3(3). 493–502. 2 indexed citations
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Hagen, Nathan & David J. Brady. (2009). Aberration correction in multiscale lenses. CWB4–CWB4.
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Perlovsky, Leonid, et al.. (2004). Phenomenology-based waveform design using Cramer-Rao theory. 1–5. 3 indexed citations
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Brady, David J., et al.. (2003). Bounds on wireless location estimation of mobile transmitters in a time varying acoustic underwater channel. Oceans 2003. Celebrating the Past ... Teaming Toward the Future (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37492). 1 indexed citations
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Kennedy, Joseph, David I. Anderson, Chong Ding, et al.. (2002). SuperSPARC multichip module. 19–28.
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Brady, David J., et al.. (2000). A practical approach to designing EAI-enabled applications. 767–769. 1 indexed citations
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Brady, David J. & Sergio Verdú. (1991). A semiclassical analysis of optical code division multiple access. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 39(1). 85–93. 33 indexed citations
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Hsu, Ken Y., David J. Brady, & Demetri Psaltis. (1987). Experimental Demonstrations of Optical Neural Computers. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 377–386. 3 indexed citations

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